In Win9x and even WinXP Luna theme everything looked the same. Even as new as Win7 with its theme or the classic UI in Win7 99% looked very consistent. But Mic

In Win9x and even WinXP Luna theme everything looked the same. Even as new as Win7 with its theme or the classic UI in Win7 99% looked very consistent. But Microsoft tipping point was Win7, everything beyond 2009 was put the former UI and UX guidelines to the trash bin and it seems color blind designers and managers with no taste and understanding are working on the Windows UI. Win8 and Win10 are now and inconsistent mess of dozens of legacy UI frameworks. The little maintained Win32 API is still the most used and best in class - like 99% of applications are coded in C/C++ with Win32API. All the small scale enterprise dotNet apps with legacy WinForm or legacy WPF in legacy dotNetFramework or the new dotNetCore mess are used rarely outside of a small niche market. (all of my hundreds of applications on Win7 are Win32, I see no dotNetFramework in ProcessExplorer - would be highlighted in yellow). And the new WinRuntime aka UniversalRuntime seems to be a trainwreck as well, with limited to to the failing WinStore - clearly a success story ;) Oh and there is the failed Silverlight and the non-public UI API from Win7+ that is used in various new UI elements like Help, Addon dialog of IE10+. It would be so nice if they once again focus on a nice looking UI theme, and focus on an consistent UI again. In Win95 to WinXP (or Win7) days everything looked to familar and nice put together. If one knew one Windows application, he knew how to use all other applications without searching around or reading a manual. Please surprise me with a nice UI, do away with thr evil phone home features and show that you value the user as your customer and not as dump sheep products. For this to ever happen, they need a major management change and turn-around.